This is a repost of Grant News by NEH:
NEH and AHRC Announce Collaborative Grant Opportunity to Use Humanities Scholarship to Study Health and Wellbeing in the UK and US
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom (AHRC) are cooperating to advance research in the humanities that focuses on the humanities and health and well-being. Applications are invited for support of collaborative research projects that use humanities disciplines to better understand health, well-being, disability, medical science and technology, or other aspects of the health sciences. Projects might investigate, for example, literary narratives of healing, the role of culture or cultural difference in health and medicine, or comparative cultural perspectives on disability. Projects must involve scholars from both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Applications are to be submitted to the NEH’s Collaborative Research program, with funding to be provided by NEH in the United States and the AHRC in the United Kingdom.
Application Deadline: December 6, 2012
Awards will be made for a minimum of one year and up to a maximum of three years with funding of between $25,000 (£15,000) and $100,000 (£62,000) available per project per year.
More details about this grant:
http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/ahrc_additional_document_language.pdf
Information on how to apply for this grant:
http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/collaborative-research-dec-6-2012.pdf
NIH Invites Humanities Researchers to Contribute to the Study of Culture and Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its Opportunity Network for Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research (OppNet), has announced a special funding opportunity for basic social and behavioral research on culture, health and wellbeing. Researchers in humanities disciplines are encouraged to apply as part of projects that maintain a required majority emphasis in basic behavioral and social sciences.
A Focus on Understanding Culture
According to the NIH announcement, “Culture usually is defined in terms of beliefs and practices that are shared within a population, which itself may share attributes such as ethnicity, race, language, gender, sexuality, specific physical impairments or geographic space. These beliefs and practices reflect common values, socialization processes that are intrinsic to the population of interest, and their other shared attributes. In practice, investigators may use gross distinctions such as demographic categories or political boundaries as proxies for culture, with little attention to how well these categories capture actual shared culture. The specific processes by which culture encompasses beliefs and practices related to health may be obscured by surrogate variables to designate culture (e.g., language, national origin, race/ethnicity). There is a need for research that improves the conceptualization and measurement of culture and does this in the context of health and social and behavioral processes that influence health.”
Under this program, OppNet expects to provide grants for infrastructure support to develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social research on the relationships among cultural practices/beliefs, health, and wellbeing. This includes an appreciation for more comprehensive understandings of the relationships regarding cultural attitudes, beliefs, practices, and processes, on outcomes relevant to human health and wellbeing. OppNet specifically welcomes research teams that include expertise complementary to basic social and behavioral sciences, e.g., arts, ethics, humanities, law.
Application Deadline: December 17, 2012
NIH intends to commit $1,425,000 in FY2013 for approximately 5-7 awards. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations. Applications must have a majority emphasis in basic behavioral and social sciences.
Information on how to apply for this grant: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-12-002.html
In addition, a webinar hosted by the Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development explains this grant in greater detail: http://www.nea.gov/research/TaskForce/Oct4-2012.html
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4 Design Tips, For Awesome Research Posters
Today’s guest blog post is by AAA member, Ashkuff.
Name’s Ashkuff, and I’m a business anthropologist. Part of my job involves conducting solid academic research, and presenting it in a slick and business-savvy way. I honed my design skills while running the marketing committee at UF’s Office of Multicultural & Diversity Affairs, and I learned about poster presentations through trial-and-error at various conferences. After my poster presentation at American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) 110th conference in Montreal, AAA invited me to guest blog about anthropology and communication. Shortly afterward, colleagues started asking me to help them design their research posters, giving me the chance to perfect my designs even more.
Based on that experience, I want to offer anthropologists four design tips for research posters!
DESIGN TIP #1
Have one clearly-defined goal for your poster. Vague goals make themselves difficult to pursue. Multiple goals overwhelm each other. Instead, decide upon one specific goal that would make you feel successful, even if all else failed. For example: “I want passersby to stop and discuss my research with me.”
DESIGN TIP#2
Have a straightforward call-to-action. Marketers have long understood that, if you want something from your audience, you need to make it clear and convenient. Think of infomercials ending with: “CALL NOW! 1-800-EXAMPLE.” Likewise, if you want passersby to discuss your research with you, your poster should ask them to! Heck, for their convenience, try including a list of suggested discussion topics.
DESIGN TIP#3
Keep it short and simple! You’re presenting a poster, not a paper. Passersby don’t have time or patience for lots of reading. You’ll be lucky for one minute of a passerby’s time, and people read around 300wpm. Also, drop jargon that your audiences won’t grasp. For example, imagine presenting “The Biokinesic Anthropology of Parkour” at an anthropology conference. Your audience will probably grasp general anthro jargon, but tune out biokinesic-specific or Parkour-specific jargon.
DESIGN TIP #4
Start with a template, and customize it to your liking! Your research and adventures probably keep you too busy for details like margin alignment and padding width. So don’t start from scratch.
— Ashkuff | http://www.ashkuff.com | Bored with reading about others’
adventures? Burning to venture out yourself? Let this applied anthropologist remind you how.
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